An understanding of the effects of sunlight on human skin begins with the effects on DNA and extends to cells, animals and humans. The major DNA photoproducts arising from UVB (280-320 nm) exposures are cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers. If unrepaired, they may kill or mutate cells and result in basal and squamous cell carcinomas. Although UVA (320-400 nm) and visible wavelengths are poorly absorbe...

Many learned behaviors are thought to require the activity of high-level neurons that represent categories of complex signals, such as familiar faces or native speech sounds. How these complex, experience-dependent neural responses emerge within the brain's circuitry is not well understood. The caudomedial mesopallium (CMM), a secondary auditory region in the songbird brain, contains neurons th...

A five-year-old previously healthy, male child from Hubli presented with confirmed dengue hemorrhagic fever on seventh day of illness. At admission, his total leucocyte count was 8500/cmm, hematocrit 40% and platelet count 50,000/cmm. Liver function test was normal. There was no proteinuria or hematuria. On Day 3 of admission, he developed acute respiratory distress syndrome(ARDS) and was venti...

Individual subjects' performance was examined for cross-modality matching (CMM) of loudness to visual area, as well as for magnitude estimation (ME) of the component continua. Average exponents of power functions relating response magnitude to stimulus intensity were .73 for area, .20 for loudness, and 2.44 for CMM. Predictions of the CMM exponent based on ME were higher than the empirical valu...

BACKGROUND Autosomal dominant congenital mirror movements (CMM) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by early onset involuntary movements of one side of the body that mirror intentional movements on the contralateral side; these persist throughout life in the absence of other neurological symptoms. The main culprit genes responsible for this condition are RAD51 and DCC. This condition...

Glutamate stimulation of the caudal midline medulla (CMM) causes profound sympathoinhibition due to GABAergic inhibition of presympathetic neurons in the rostral ventrolateral medulla (RVLM). We investigated whether the sympathoinhibitory pathway from CMM to RVLM, like the central baroreceptor reflex pathway, includes a glutamatergic synapse in the caudal ventrolateral medulla (CVLM). In pentob...

Meta modeling is a widely established means for developing conceptual modeling methods (CMM). Here, we show how a CMM for the structured conceptual design of management information systems has been developed in an evolutionary process based on meta modeling. The aim of management information systems is to satisfy the information need managers have to successfully accomplish their tasks. The qua...

Index of Tables and Figures Figure Source Figure 1 – p. 4 Structure of CMM Paulk, Mark C., et al. The Capability Maturity Model: A Tutorial. A set of slides from SEI describing CMM and the underlying structure.